Apple begins to make a new version of its iPad tablet computer with a front-facing camera and faster processor, according to the Wall Street Journal... more
Booming smartphone sales in the UK and fast customer growth in India help Vodafone report its annual profits will be at the top end of City forecasts... more
Royal Bank of Scotland was London's best-performing blue-chip on reports that the taxpayer-controlled lender is in talks about an early exit from the Government's expensive protection plan... more
Which FTSE 100 company’s share price has risen 35% in the past six months, and still offers a likely dividend yield of more than 5% this year?
Vodafone... more
Cable & Wireless Worldwide wins a deal worth £82 million to supply the Foreign & Commonwealth Office with state-of-the-art voice and data telecoms... more
Microsoft axed its latest mobile phone and Amazon slashed the price of its Kindle digital reading device as both battle to keep up with arch-rival Apple’s iPhone and iPad... more
Investors around the world were on tenterhooks this morning ahead of the publication of arguably the most important set of world economic figures — the latest US unemployment statistics ... more
Verizon Wireless, the US mobile phone giant 45% owned by Britain's Vodafone, is at the centre of a new probe by the Obama administration into its and AT&T's domination of the telecoms market... more
When Boots was taken over by Stefano Pessina’s Alliance group, I irritated Richard Baker, the then Boots chief executive, when I said I did not expect him to last six months under the new regime. He disagreed and he was right; he lasted about a year. In the end though, he decided the company was not big enough to have a hands-on executive chairman in Pessina, and still leave a proper job for the chief executive ... more
It was only three months ago, but it seems like a lost world. In August, the Bank of England Governor was admitting to feeling a slight autumnal chill as he introduced the quarterly Inflation Report, but there was no doubt what topped the monetary policy committee's agenda, as Mervyn King shocked us by admitting that inflation was set to hit 5% and stay there for several months... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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